Gulliver'S Travels: 1400 Headwords

Pros: It's the classic, with a lot of support for modern readers.
Cons: The footnotes again, and sometimes Swift himself.

Jonathan Swift, in the English-speaking world, at least, is synonymous with barbed, bitter satire. Perhaps it is partly the circumstances of history -- Swift's time is no longer a living reality -- and partly the result of a dumbed-down, in-your-face ...

Pros: Well, it is a classic. Also, I thought a few of its concepts were briefly entertaining
Cons: Too wordy to be gripping and interesting, and too ridiculous to be taken seriously for the issues it addresses

Let me start off on the right foot by admitting that this book, in all fairness, had a lot going against it at the time that I read it.

1. Although I'm an avid reader, I hate being told to read something. So when my English teacher slapped...

Pros: Swift's brilliant satire is exactly on mark
Cons: none

Gulliver's Travels is a scathing satire written about 18th century England by the top satirist of his age.

Jonathan Swift is Gulliver - and is the one who travels the world and runs into people who symbolize specifically the British people...

Pros: Entertaining and imaginative story
Cons: Rambles in some places.

This story is basically a fictitious travelogue that chronicles the adventures of one Captain Lemuel Gulliver. The story was first published in 1726 as an autobiographical account, although most realized it was actually written by Swift. It is...

Pros: Very entertaining and thought-provoking
Cons: None

If you haven't had the pleasure of reading Gulliver's Travels, you are in for a treat. The story tells of Gulliver, a sailor who is shipwrecked on an island in which things are drastically different. He meets a race of little people named Lilliputians...